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1) Author or Producer • The quote comes from an interview that was conducted for the Frontline presentation A Dangerous Business Revisited. The quote comes from David Uhlmann, chief of the Department of Justice Environmental Crimes Section. 2) What is the point of the passage? What is the author trying to prove? • The point of this passage is to point out the glaring lack of ethical and legal protection of the employees at McWayne. The quote points out that the company would not have changed if they were just forced to pay fines for every OSHA violation. The author is trying to say that without the whistleblowing that occurred, McWayne would’ve continued to just “throw money” at the problem instead of truly changing. 3) In the context of

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